China lockdown entire cities and closed its borders, but it didnt tell the west just how dangerous covid-19 really was, china bad
(in my country in the first 4 months of the pandemic they were saying masks arent needed too, only to say a few weeks ago that they always said that masks are necessary)
"They only protect other people, so who gives a fuck. It's not like we're a society or anything"
The absolute state of western selfishness.
Fauci himself claimed they weren't necessary a week after this.
Absolute stupidity. Good thing he's not gonna be Chief Medical Advisor or anything
It’s not like we’re a society or anything
Joker memes getting weird.
China was massively any tyrannically overreacting to a new strain of flu, their propaganda machine pumping out doctored photos of them building hospitals they didn't need and with videos flooding social media of poor brave citizens being cruelly locked in their houses and spooky hazmat crews spraying evil disinfectant, and also there was never any indication from China that this virus should be taken seriously
lmao this is just a map of what countries Americans like the most
On NPR early on, they talked to two 'experts' who were medical doctors, a listener-submitted question was about the efficacy of masks. Both said the droplets carrying the virus would escape through the gaps around the nose, rendering them useless. In Asian countries, you see a lot of masks, that's more of a cultural thing, one said.
A couple weeks later masks were being recommended by the CDC but of course NPR never publicized a redaction, just pretended that of course they were saying it all along - they are the bastion of Good Information, bestowed upon them by God, immune to the failings that non-liberal journalism can suffer.
I said a long time ago when the Anti-China sentiment started ramping up that anything the media can't ascribe to the CCP or Communism they will attribute it to "Chinese culture" to explain it to their audiences in a kind soft racism. I keep being right about it, and it sucks.
My favorite example of this is "saving face". Like yeah, only Asian people do things with the motive of avoiding humiliation, people from Western cultures just love being publicly owned.
people from Western cultures just love being publicly owned
sometimes I wonder...
Just heard an NPR interview on the radio today that was exactly this. Basically saying that Chinese culture is more collective, and that the communists were lucky they had such people to "rule over" or something like that.
Yeah because it's much easier to exploit people who care about the future of their communities than it is to exploit people who will gladly allow the meadow on the other side of town to be bulldozed if it means they get a Red Mango closer to their house
Our competition with one another for everything is the most obviously exploitable thing wtf
Good foresight. Although it's amazing just how much they can make about communism [see blobjim's comment].
In the same interview, they said that it was almost certain that asymptomatic people wouldn't transmit the virus.
And I'm not upset they didn't know things early on, it's just the bravado over-confidence in the "Western method" of avoiding asking the populace to do anything and just letting the experts figure it out. They bent the limited data to their notion that something as goofy and paranoid as everyone masking up must be pointless.
In 1984, the evil commies routinely engages in dishonesty, changing between two conflicting opinions without any self awareness.
Meanwhilst, this announcement is from Wuhan back on December 31st last year.
